For decades, Advanced Placement classes have offered a means for ambitious high school students to earn a boost toward college. More than 60 percent of U.S. high schools offer AP classes, which are ...

Each November, students and schools face a deadline for registering for exams for the College Board’s Advanced Placement fall-semester and yearlong courses. These exams are taken in May and depending ...

Taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to nudge more students into Advanced Placement classes — but a close look at test scores suggests much of the investment has been ...

Atlanta Public Schools is making a concerted effort, like others nationally, to get more historically underrepresented students into Advanced Placement classes.

Two-thirds of college-level courses offered at secondary schools meet academic requirements allowing them to be called Advanced Placement courses, and some of the remaining third, which are still ...

On the heels of a controversy over how to teach African American studies, another showdown over Advanced Placement courses could be brewing in Florida, this time over AP Psychology, as the nonprofit ...

The table above shows the gender breakdown for 35 Advanced Placement subject exams taken by high school students in 2011, based on data just released in the subject supplement as part of the 8th ...

This story was originally published on K-12 Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily K-12 Dive newsletter. As the 2025 Advanced Placement exam season approaches, students ...

In a previous article, I described a massive change in the distribution of AP scores. There were some hints that this was coming. There was a 2021 conference on the English Literature and Language AP ...

Officials overseeing the Advanced Placement program have announced that they intend to drop AP classes and exams in four subject areas, in a pullback expected to affect about 12,500 students and 2,500 ...